Archive for 'Gaza'
Nasrallah forecasts the prospect of coming conflict
On January 15, the Secretary General of Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech celebrating the death anniversary of Shi’i Imam Al-Husayn. The following is the text of the speech carried by Hezbollah-affiliated Al Manar TV. The text is reprinted here with permission from and thanks to Mideastwire.
“Esteemed scholars, brothers and sisters…I would like to […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2008 under Bush Administration, CF REPORTS, Gaza, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lebanon, Middle East, Syria.
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“Follow Us Not Them” - The Ramallah Model: Washington’s Palestinian Failure
A Conflicts Forum Monograph, by Geoffrey Aronson, November, 2007
George Bush’s “vision” of a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is based on the supremacy of the “Ramallah model” over the “Gaza model.” U.S. policy intends that the advantages championed by Ramallah in negotiations with Israel and the economic revival enabled by international assistance will “strengthen Abu […]
Posted: December 17th, 2007 under Bush Administration, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, MONOGRAPHS, Palestinians, West Bank.
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Mish’al’s speech to Arab intellectuals
On November 5, Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khalid Mish’al gave a speech to Arab intellectuals gathered at the Palestine Culture Institute in Damascus. The following is the text of the speech carried by pro-Hamas Al Aqsa TV. The text is reprinted here with permission from and thanks to Mideastwire.
In the name of God, the merciful, […]
Posted: November 11th, 2007 under CF REPORTS, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, PLO.
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Hamas and al-Qaida: The Prospects for Radicalization in the Palestinian Occupied Territories
A Conflicts Forum Monograph, by Khalid Amayreh, October, 2007
The rise of the Islamic Resistance Movement — Hamas — in the Palestinian Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza provided a challenge for Israel and the West. Israel, the United States and the European Union have responded to this challenge by failing to differentiate Hamas […]
Posted: November 7th, 2007 under Al Qaeda, Gaza, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, MONOGRAPHS, Occupied Territories.
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The failure of the Palestinian national unity government and the Gaza takeover
A Conflicts Forum Chronology, October 15, 2007
The Failure of the National Unity Government and the Gaza Takeover: December 2005 to July 2007 [PDF], is a detailed chronology, documenting events leading up to the signing, on February 8, 2007, of the Mecca Agreement ending factional fighting between Hamas and Fatah, leading to the formation of a […]
Posted: October 15th, 2007 under CF REPORTS, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Mecca Agreement, West Bank.
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Closing NGOs underming Abu Mazen government
From our West Bank Correspondent, Conflicts Forum, October 8, 2007
The Al-Wurud Organization supports 130 poor families by providing food packages during holy days, feasts, and at the beginning of the school year. They hold workshops for women on social, educational and health issues. But the Palestinian government — the emergency government declared by Abu […]
Posted: October 8th, 2007 under CF REPORTS, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Palestinians, West Bank.
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